His father’s son

An unflagging loyalty to his profession and its principles had made Arthur, over the years, increasingly deliberate in his speech and actions, and increasingly exacting regarding the truth in even his most casual reportage. He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous, and though Ishmael might strive to emulate this, there was nevertheless this matter of [...]

His idea of justice

Recently, the US Supreme Court passed an order for an “innocence hearing” to be held in the case of a man convicted of murder after doubts arose over his guilt. But a couple of judges dissented. Among them is Scalia. And this is his defense- This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the [...]

Countries that can be run by idiots

TT Ram Mohan has an article in ET wherein he recommends regulations that place limits on the size of banks. The idea behind it- A large, integrated financial institution today has hundreds of subsidiaries… it is impossible for any individual to understand what all the parts of such an organisation are doing…. Enterprise-wide risk management [...]

Police State

It had taken time to do all this. Time and anger and the certainty of not being disturbed. It must have happened while he was under guard in Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse. It could only have been the work of the Gestapo. He remembered a line of graffiti scrawled by the White Rose on a wall near Werderscher-Markt: [...]

The idea behind flacFS and virtualFLAC

[I am not providing the complete source code for what I have described here right now. It is not fit for release. If and when it will be, I will GPL it.] A very substantial part of my audio library consists of cds ripped in the [single flac image + embedded cue sheet] format. All [...]